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By The New York Post Editorial Board

As the Danny Penny jury deliberates, this farce of a trial has made one thing abundantly plain: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg needs to go.

This case never should have gone to court.

The prosecution’s own witnesses proved that every rational person in that subway car — veterans of the subway system — feared for their lives after Jordan Neely burst through the doors and began ranting death threats as he half-lunged at other straphangers.

Penny heroically acted to protect them.

It’s a tragedy that Neely wound up dead, but Penny was far from the only author of that tragedy: The failure to address his severe schizophrenia illness (even after he skipped early, just two months before the fatal day, out of treatment mandated after a 2021 assault) and his compromised physical health, including the synthetic marijuana in his system at time of death, all played a role.

The city medical examiner didn’t even wait for the toxicology report before declaring a homicide — on the basis of watching the videos alone.

Yet Bragg, playing to race-obsessed “activists,” brought charges of second-degree manslaughter — plus, as “insurance” in hopes the jury would agree on a lesser charge, negligent homicide.

Even if Penny’s found innocent on all charges, his ordeal still sends a grim message to all New Yorkers remains: Don’t think about standing up to protect the innocent.

And this is far from Bragg’s only outrage.

Consider his prosecution of Jose Alba, the bodega clerk attacked in his workplace who accidentally killed in self-defense — the charges dropped only when the “optics” got bad.

Or Bragg’s two-years-belated indictment of a cop for punching an unruly perp (who wasn’t harmed) he was escorting out of an Upper West Side Apple Store.

Or the charges against Scotty Enoe, a CVS worker, who stabbed a serial shoplifter to death after the homeless man pulled the knife on him.

This DA sides with the perps every time — and against those who resist them.

Not to mention the resources wasted on his ultimate political persecution: the ridiculous pursuit of now-President-elect Donald Trump over 2017 book-keeping entries that supposedly tampered with the 2016 election.

Yes, a compliant partisan hack of a trial judge helped Bragg get felony convictions, and so produce a talking point for Dems in the recent election — but the absurdity of the case also bolstered Trump’s claims to be a victim of out-of-control “lawfare.”

Nor is it likely to hold up if Trump’s ever allowed to appeal.

Beyond these outrages, Bragg’s approach starting with his infamous “Day One” memo — barring staff from prosecuting a wide range of offenses and limiting the sentences they seek — has been objectively pro-criminal.

He’s a menace, and the city needs to be done with him.